Support for roll material



Feb. 27, 1968 I w BARBEE 3,370,895

SUPPORT FOR ROLL MATERIAL Filed Aug. 15, 1966 WALTER M. BARBEE INVENTOR.

Q 'A I W HIS AGENT United States l atent @fiice 3,370,865 Patented Feb. 27, 1968 3,370,805 SUPPORT FOR ROLL MATERIAL Walter M. Barbee, Rte. 2, Quuah, Tex. 75252 Filed Aug. 15, 1966, Ser. No. 572,323 3 Claims. (Cl. 242-55432) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A holder for roll material including a base having an outwardly extending support member, an upstanding standard intersecting the support member and connected thereto by a saddle member, and a disc member on the standard for supporting a roll thereon. The standard can also have a reduced end portion and a second disc member for supporting a second roll thereon.

This invention relates to supports for roll material and particularly roll holders or supports for roll material for such material as rolls of tissue, paper towels, foil, plastic Wrapping materials, and the like.

The present roll holder is so designed as to have a base, an outwardly extending support member, and an upstanding roll holding member with a base being so constructed as to attach to a vertical wall so the upstanding standard may normally be in an upright position to hold a roll of paper or the like thereon. However, if desired, the upstanding standard may be angulated or even arranged in a horizontal position according to the particular installation.

Various roll holders have been proposed heretofore but these for a great extent were utilitarian and did not lend beauty to the decor of the bathroom, kitchen, or wherever they were used. Others were complex in structure and made the cost so great they did not find ready favor.

The present device is constructed so as to be artistic in appearance, utilitarian in use, and low in the cost of manufacture. Therefore, the present unit fulfills many of the requisites required of an article of this character.

The present holder of roll material is so constructed as to hold a single roll or a plurality of rolls of tissue, paper towels, foil, plastic wrapping materials, and the like. It may be molded of plastic in injection molds or such molds as to suit the particular manufacturing techniques. The present holder of roll material may either be made of a unitary mass of material, may be made hollow, or it may be fabricated of two or more pieces.

An object of this invention is to provide a holder of roll material which holder will support a roll of material in a fixed, rotatable relation with respect to a base Another object of the invention is to provide a holder for roll material which holder may be readily applied to a vertical face, such as a wall, to hold a roll of material thereon in upright position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holder for roll material which holder is molded of hollow plastic to form a support for roll material.

Another object of the invention is to provide a roll holder for holding a plurality of rolls of roll material, which holder may be assembled in such a manner that the material from each roll may be removed therefrom without disturbing or affecting the material on the other roll.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a holder for roll material which holder is simple in construction, ,easy to manufacture, and low in the cost of production.

With these objects in mind and others which will become manifest as the description proceeds, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing in which like reference characters denote like parts in the several views thereof, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a holder for roll material, showing a plurality of rolls of material, such as toilet tissue, thereon with the rolls of material being shown in dashed outline;

FIG. 2 is an elevational view of the form of invention as shown in FIG. 1, with parts broken away and shown in section to bring out the details of construction;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged, fragmentary, sectional view taken on line 3-3 of FIG. 2, but showing parts thereof in exploded relation with respect to each other;

FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 1, but showing a holder for roll material and showing one roll of material thereon in dashed outline;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 55 of FIG. 4, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows but without the roll being positioned thereon;

FIG. 6 is an elevational view of a still further modified form of the invention, with parts broken away and shown in section to bring out the details of construction; and

FIG. 7 is a front elevational view of the form of the invention as shown in FIG. 6.

With more specific reference to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates generally a base having an outwardly extending support member 2 thereon which, in the present instance, is hollow, as indicated at 4. This outwardly extending support member 2 has a closed end 6. The base may be cemented to a vertical panel or wall, thereby enabling the ready attachment to ceramic tile or other hard, smooth surfaces. Various cements for this purpose are well known in the trade, one being a permanently tacky, pressure sensitive, adhesive cement which may be attached to a face 8 thereof. However, circumferentially spaced holes 1 are provided in the base 1 of the holder for roll material to enable it to be secured by screws (not shown) to a vertical panel, such as a wall.

In the form of the invention shown in FIG. 2, an upstanding standard 12 is provided which has a roll support member 14 near the lower end thereof, which roll support member 14 preferably has a rib 16 on either side thereof which extends downwardly and is made integral with the lower portion of upstanding standard 12.

The upstanding standard 12 has a U-shaped saddle 18 on the lower end thereof, which saddle has an upper portion which is coextensive with a groove 20 formed in the lower side of roll support member 14. With the U-shaped saddle 18 and groove 20 of substantially the same arcuate form as the cylindrical surface of outwardly extending support member 2, a compatible bonding cement, such as an acrylic or epoxy cement, may be used to cement the upstanding standard 12 to the outwardly extending support member 2 so as to form a substantially unitary bond therewith.

It is preferable to have the upper face of the roll support member 14 slightly above the upper surface of outwardly extending support member 2 so as to enable the roll of material supported thereon to be free to roll the desired extent. However, it is preferable to have the roll support member 14 sufliciently large and disc-like so as to provide the proper amount of friction to enable a roll of paper or the like to roll thereon when pulled steadily, but to enable the paper to be readily torn therefrom when a sudden pull is exerted thereupon.

The upstanding standard 12 is preferably hollow as indicated at 13, which, together with the outwardly extending support member 2 being hollow as indicated at 4, enables a substantial reduction in weight over the entire unit being molded of solid material which is within the purview of the invention. The upstanding standard 12 has an upstanding reduced end portion 11 which is shouldered as indicated at 22, upon which shoulder 22 a second roll supported member, such as an annular disc 24, is supported as will be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2.

It is preferable that the holder for roll material, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, with the shoulder 22 so positioned that the lower roll 26 of paper, or the like, is spaced downward from the annular disc 24 as is indicated in FIG. 1 so the lower roll 26 will be free to rotate. independently of the roll 28 supported on the upstanding reduced end portion 11. In this manner, two rolls of material may be supported for independent use, or a single roll may be supported thereon as a reserve supply, as in the case of toilet tissue, paper towels, or the like.

The upstanding standard 12 has the upper end thereof closed as indicated at 30. The particular form of the invention, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, may be molded with the disc-like base 1; and the outwardly extending hollow support member 2 has a single unitary base with the proper draft to permit the draw of the core therefrom which is well known in the molding art. Therefore, the particular tolerances of .draft is considered inherent and will not be shown unless required. Likewise, the upstanding standard 12 has a hollow 13 formed therein and may be molded in a mold with a tolerance so it may be removed from the mold and the core may be removed from the hollow upstanding standard 12. Likewise, the mold tolerances are not given, but can be given if required. Or as an alternate manner of manufacturing, the base 1 may be made of a disc of sheet material; and the outwardly extending support member 2 may be made of atubular material with the tubular material used being welded into unitary relation with the base 1. Likewise,

the end 6 of the tubular material .may be heated and fused together to form a closed end. The upstanding standard 12 may be made of tubular material and may be heated and drawn to form an upstanding reduced end portion 11 and so heated to close the end 30 thereof. However, in view of the simplicity of molding this in injection type molds which may be done in two pieces with the exception of the second roll support member 24.

With the upstanding standard 12 adhered as indicated at 18 and with the groove 20 coextensive with and complementary to the cylindrical surface of outwardly extending support member 2, this may be readily cemented in place in a minimum of time; and due to the large area of contact, a cementcompatible with the particular material used will readily and permanently unite these elements in bonded relation.

SECOND FORM OF INVENTION The. second form of the invention is shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, which second form has a disc-like base 41 similar to base 1 and has an outwardly extending support member 42' similar to outwardly extending support member 2. The outwardly extending support member 42 is hollow, as indicated at 44 and as will best be seen in FIG. 5, and has a closed end 46, and is preferably made unitary with base 41. The face 48 of the base 41 may be coated with a cement to adhere to a tile surface or the like, which cements include various materials such as permanently tacky, pressure sensitive cement which may be coated thereon at the time of manufacture, and the coating thereof protected in a conventional manner as is well known in the art, until it is desired to apply the roll holder to a smooth vertical surface suchas ceramic tile. The base 41 is also provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes 50 through which screws or the like may pass to secure the roll holder to a wall, Where it is acceptable to use screws.

An upstanding standard 52 is preferably made integral with the outwardly extending support member 42 and is hollow as indicated at 53. The hollow portions 44 and 53 may be made by the interfitting of longitudinally movable cores, as is possible in the art of the molding of plastics. A roll support member 54, which is disc-like in shape and has a flat upper surface to receive the roll of material thereon, surrounds the upstanding standard 52. The roll support member 54 is molded integralwith the outwardly extending support member 42 and has ribs 56 extending downward therefrom and fused integral with the outwardly extending support member 42 so as to readily place the roll support member 54 and upstanding standard 52 The upper end of the upstanding standard 52 may be closed by a cap 66 which has an annular rib 62 therearound so that the rib on the cap may be pressed in place within the hollow 53 of upstanding standard 52 and, if desired, may be cemented with a cementqcompatible with the plastic material used.

The invention of this character is relatively light in weight, sturdy in construction and presents an article of beauty for bathroom, kitchen, or anywhere the roll material may be used; and it may serve as a dispenser roll holder or as a roll holder for a reserve roll of material. The length or height of upstanding standard 52 may vary according to the length of roll material used. As pointed out for the above mentioned form of the invention, the

roll support member 54 may be of such diameter as to p-resent the required friction or drag to the roll to enable the roll to rotate about the upstanding standard 52 and can present sufficient friction that roll material may be torn therefrom by a quick pull.

This form of the invention may be molded in a single hollow unitary mass with the exception of cap 60, and while cap 60 adds to the beauty, the utility of the roll holder is equally effective without the cap 60being applied; For all practical purposes, this form of the invention will provide a roll holder which may be molded in a single unit, and While the upstanding standard 52 has been shown in upright position, it may also be angulated or arranged in horizontal position to fit the particular requirements of installation.

THIRD FORM OF INVENTION The third form of the invention is shown in FIGS; 6 and 7, which is very similar in exterior shape to the form of the invention shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. However, the form of the invention as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is made of solid plastic and preferably of a single molded unit. In

this manner, a disc-like base 71 is provided which has an outwardly extending support member 72 which has a rounded end thereon as indicated at 76.

The face 78 of base 71 may be coated with a cement, as desired suitable for attaching to tile, and screws may be utilized for attaching Where it is not feasible to use cement. Circumferentially spaced holes 80 are provided in the base 71 to enable the roll holder to be attached to a vertical Wall or panel by screws when required; An upstanding standard82 is preferably made integral with and extends upwardly from outwardly extending support member 72 and forms an axis or standard around'which a roll of material will rotate when supported on a roll sup port member 84 which is made integral with the upstanding standard 82 and the outwardly extending support member 72. Ribs 86 are made in unitary relation with roll support member 84 and extend downward therefrom and are integral with upstanding standard 82 as will be seen in FIGS. 6 and 7. The upper end of the upstanding standard 82 has a rounded end 90 thereon.

While the form of the invention as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is shown to be ofa unitary solid molded construction, it is to be understood that it is within the purview of the invention to fabricate this out of discs of plastic with the outwardly extending support member 72 secured thereto by cement and with the upstanding member 82 saddled thereon in a manner similar to the manner of saddling the upstanding standard in the first form of the invention with an annular disc-like member surrounding the upstanding standard and cemented to the upper face of the outer extending member. Such an annular disc is shown at 24 in the first form of the invention.

Having thus clearly shown and described the invention;

what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A holder for roll material, which holder comprises;

(a) a base,

(b) an outwardly extending, round support member on said base,

(c) an upstanding round standard intersecting said outwardly extending, round support member intermediate the length thereof at a substantially right angle thereto,

(1) said upstanding round standard having a saddle formed in the lower end thereof to complementally seat on said outwardly extending, round support member, and

(d) means connecting said saddle to said standard,

(e) a disc-like roll support member surrounding said upstanding round standard and having the upper face thereof lying in a horizontal plane a spaced distance above the upper surface of said outwardly extending, round support member.

2. A holder for roll material as defined in claim 1;

wherein (a) ribs are integrally formed on said upstanding round standard and on the lower side of said disc-like roll support member, which ribs extend downwardly substantially to the diametrical center of said outwardly extending, round support member on each side thereof, when said upstanding, round standard is in place on said outwardly extending, round support member,

(b) said upstanding, round standard has a reduced end portion,

(1) said reduced end portion forming a shoulder,

and

(c) a second disc-like member, having a hole formed therein, fitted on the reduced end portion of said upstanding, round standard to rest on said shoulder to enable a second roll of material to be supported above the first mentioned roll of material which is supported on said first mentioned disc-like support member.

3. A holder for roll material, which holder comprises;

(a) abase,

(b) an outwardly extending, hollow support member on said base,

(c) an upstanding, hollow standard on said outwardly extending support member, within the length thereof,

(1) said upstanding standard having a saddle formed in the lower side thereof, which saddle is complementary in curvature to the cross-sectional shape of the outwardly extending support member,

(2) said upstanding standard being secured to said outwardly extending support by a cement which is compatible with the material of said outwardly extending support member and with said upstanding standard,

(d) a disc-like roll support member surrounding said upstanding standard and extending outward to be coextensive with a portion of the surface of said outwardly extending support member, and

(e) rib members extending downwardly substantially to the diametrical center of said outwardly extending support member.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,224,106 4/1917 Good 242-55.54 2,555,531 6/ 1951 Boord 24255.42 2,562,923 8/ 1951 Kolivoski 242 .2 2,632,605 3/1953 Lee 24255.2 2,928,618 3/1960 Locke 24255.54 2,978,155 4/ 1961 Knutson 24255.42 X

FOREIGN PATENTS 285,769 2/1928 Great Britain.

GEORGE F. MAUTZ, Primary Examiner. 

